ACC Limited was incorporated on August 1, 1996 as The Associated Cement Companies Limited. The Company was formed by merger of ten existing cement companies. In 1944, they established India's first entirely indigenous cement plant at Chaibasa in Bihar. In 1956, they established bulk cement depot at Okhla, Delhi. ACC Limited is a part of the diversified Adani Group, with cement in India for more than eight-and-a-half decades.